Chapter 40: Can Master be Punished?

Thinking of a certain possibility, Mo Shulin couldn’t help but to ask, “Master, do you hate writing talismans so much? If you don’t like it, we can do another task.”

He thought Bai Yuming liked literature since he kept reading scripts all the time, so Mo Shulin chose creating heart-cleansing talismans task.

Now seeing Bai Yuming actively chose to evade writing talismans, Mo Shulin can’t help but think that he chose the wrong task from the beginning.

“Usually.” The fat rabbit said euphemistically. A pair of rabbit eyes kept peering around, avoiding Mo Shulin’s gaze.

He wanted to scratch his face due to embarrassment but got caught by Mo Shulin.

Fortunately, Mo Shulin caught the rabbit’s paw, otherwise his face would be stained with ink.

The fat rabbit was about to meet Mo Shulin’s eyes and say thank you, but he was met with Mo Shulin’s nervous and regretful expression.

The fat rabbit’s heart suddenly stung. He got used to Mo Shulin’s attentiveness and forgot that his disciple was trying to please him, for fear to make him unhappy.

“It’s not that I hate writing talismans, it’s just that I’m lazy.” The fat rabbit explained, starting to feel embarrassed.

No matter how thick his bunny skin is, when he admitted that he’s lazy in front of his disciple, it would be inevitable for his face to redden.

Seeing Mo Shulin’s disbelief, the fat rabbit simply smash the broken jar and said, “Don’t worry about it. Even if you find me another tasks, I’ll still be lazy.”

Worried that he would give Mo Shulin a bad idea, the fat rabbit changed his words, “That’s not being lazy, it’s just to improve production quality and efficiency.”

Mo Shulin: “…”

The fat rabbit thought that his statement was good, so he continued to say nonsense seriously, “Think about it. I could only use one hand to write, but I could use both paws to stamp.”

“I can dip both of my paws on ink like this, and stamp, stamp, stamp all the way, so the speed is much faster than writing.” The fat rabbit whispered and began to fiddle with the pair of rabbit claws, like a set of rabbit fist.

A rabbit’s paw is tender pink, wrapped in white fluff, making it seemed to be very warm and adorable. The other rabbit’s paw is dark, with ink tangled around the fur. But Mo Shulin felt these rabbit paws are cute like this.

“Un. If master want to change to other tasks in the future, master have to tell me.” Mo Shulin accepted the fat rabbit’s nonsense.

Mo Shulin needed spirit stones but since he can’t fly with a sword, he could only ask Bai Yuming to accompany him. When Bai Yuming went with him, they’ll be able to take a task smoothly and earn a little bit of spirit stones. Bai Yuming likes idle tasks like planting seeds, which only needed to transfer spiritual energy. Since it’s easy, it won’t earn much.”

Mo Shulin knew that Bai Yuming couldn’t escape from doing tasks, but he hopes that Bai Yuming would do the tasks he enjoys.

When it comes to this, fat rabbit didn’t lie to Mo Shulin, “If it failed the examination, I really don’t plan to take on the task of writing talismans anymore.”

Worrying about the topic again, fat rabbit continued: “My handwriting is too ugly. Obviously those words were written by you, but you didn’t say a word when you sold it.” Mo Shulin didn’t say anything with such abundant spiritual energy, so people would thought Bai Yuming was the one who wrote it.

The fat rabbit was angry when he thought about it, forgetting the ink on his paws, he touched his waist and the lump of white furs on his waist turned into a small patch of black fur immediately.

Mo Shulin frowned. He wanted to hold the rabbit ears, lifting the fat rabbit to wash him. Seeing the chubby rabbit and short ears due to obesity, he felt the rabbit ears couldn’t hold the whole weight of the body.

Remembering the soft and smooth feeling when he hugged the fat rabbit just now, Mo Shulin felt a little itchy.

It really felt nice to hug him, warm and comfortable. It’s just that, the fat rabbit is too heavy and he still can’t hug the rabbit at this age.

“You say something ah.” The fat rabbit realized Mo Shulin was dazed at this moment, and he became angry.

Though the fat rabbit is short, the pressure he emits could reach up to two-meter-eight in height.

The fat rabbit doesn’t think he has to do anything as a master.

The Cultivator Continent respects the masters who preach and teaches as their occupation, even sometimes got blinded by respect and felt everything the master said is right.

What Bai Yuming received was a modern civilized education, and there weren’t so many rules and regulations. He believes that three people, there must be my teacher, and the teacher is someone who got knowledge earlier than himself.

Bai Yuming respects teachers because he respects everyone who’s hardworking.

Some teachers doesn’t taught students well and mislead them. Even if they’re called teachers, they aren’t worthy of being respected by the world. Even if some people doesn’t have a teacher qualification certificate, but they’ve done the work of teaching and preaching, then these people are worthy of respect.

But Mo Shulin’s way of doing things is a bit unnatural.

At morning in the yellow muddy cave, Bai Yuming agreed to sell the couplets and was prepared to lose face. Mo Shulin didn’t have to say anything to help him solve the problem.

Though Mo Shulin said to help him, but when a customer came, Mo Shulin didn’t say a word to explain it was his handwriting, only focused on selling things.

He didn’t mention it for the first time when they came back, because he didn’t care so much about embarrassing things.

The ugly handwriting is indeed his problem. Bai Yuming has to admit this fact and try to overcome this weakness.

But Mo Shulin should also self-examine that words aren’t always a fact.

Mo Shulin will embark on the path of becoming a Demon Lord in the future. In the original story, Mo Shulin is indeed a villain with a three-pointed view. Bai Yuming was afraid that he wouldn’t be good at teaching the child, but after accepting Mo Shulin, he misled a good boy like him.

Facing the two-meter-eight fat rabbit’s pressure, Mo Shulin wasn’t afraid at all, instead he wanted to test the edge of danger. His mind is full of tiger wolf ideas.

Mo Shulin knew that fat rabbit wasn’t really angry.

An angry person won’t have such a delicate voice tone. But the frustrated rabbit would only shout, stare, and open his three-lobed mouth to bite.

Mo Shulin pretended that he couldn’t understand that the fat rabbit wanted to correct his “bad behavior”, so he shrank his shoulders in grievance, trying to maintain the cute image of a little disciple, and explained to the fat rabbit.

“Master, it’s not that I didn’t say anything, but they didn’t ask. And talismans doesn’t need to be written with a clear and beautiful handwriting. Some special talismans have special effects just because of the handwriting itself.” Mo Shulin cautiously glanced at the fat rabbit, only to meet the rabbit’s black eyes and immediately avert his attention.

The fat rabbit will be suspicious.

That being said, there seems to be some truth.

The success rate of the heart-cleansing talismans are high because of the unique rules and sequence between the characters.

These laws are like songs, ups and downs, ups and downs. As long as the singer follows the rhythm of the notes and sings according to the lyrics, even if they stumbles and the rhythm is a bit wrong, there’ll still be that kind of feeling when hearing it.

The effect of the heart-cleansing talismans are just like those songs. Good music has the miraculous advantage of soothing the body and mind, doubling the effect. Although those stumbled rhythm lowers the effect by a few percent, they’re somewhat useful and can still arouse other people’s feelings.

Mo Shulin knew that fat rabbit had listened to his words, and said: “Master think about it. Didn’t they stare at it with strange eyes?”

It seems… not really.

The fat rabbit recalled the scene at that time. Those people only thought about the purpose of the Spring Festival couplets and how much money they could buy it, but they didn’t dislike the handwriting.

“They didn’t ask, it means they didn’t care about the handwriting at all. What they need is something that can be used and has a huge cultivation base. If I deliberately talked about the handwriting, would we still have the amount of spirit stones that we have now? I doubt that.” Mo Shulin sensed the fat rabbit’s two-meter-eight pressure gradually shrink.

“It seems quite reasonable for you to say that.” The more fat rabbit thought about it, the more he felt that he wronged Mo Shulin.

It’s not that Mo Shulin didn’t give him the pot, but he didn’t have the chance to get the pot.

Some people care about the handwriting, and some people don’t. They just ran into those people who didn’t care.

“I’ve been thinking too much about this. I apologize.” The fat rabbit’s head is slightly lowered, because it is fat, it is not obvious to bow its head, but its voice is sincere, “I’m sorry.”

Mo Shulin was taken aback by the fat rabbit behavior. He didn’t mean to blame Bai Yuming, since this matter itself can cause misunderstanding.

The Cultivator Continent praised the master too much, even when the master made mistakes, it was more to reward the disciple with an experience rather than to apologize sincerely.

Mo Shulin glanced at the fat rabbit’s black paws and deliberately said, “Then will the master be punished?”

This is definitely the most daring thing he has done. It’s just that he felt uncomfortable seeing the black paws.

“You, a disciple, actually want to punish me?” The fat rabbit grunted and said, “Okay. This time I’m in the wrong. I’ll give you an opportunity to punish me as a teacher.”

“What is your punishment for me?” Fat rabbit suddenly became a little nervous.

The little disciple shouldn’t deliberately embarrass him. But in the face of unknown things, fat rabbit couldn’t help thinking about the worst.

“Punish…” Mo Shulin deliberately dragged his words. He saw fat rabbit’s ears were upright, then slowly continued, “Punish master to let me cut your furs.”

The fat rabbit thought that he was about to become a bald rabbit, took two steps back on fear, trying to stay away from the disciple who suddenly became a little devil in front of him.

Mo Shulin knew that his master had misunderstood, he had no choice but to explain, “Master, I’ll help you shorten the furs on your paws.”

Only then did fat rabbit understand that his obedient and well-behaved disciple saw that his rabbit fur was too long. It’ll be inconvenient to stamp with his paws later, so he has to deal with it first.

After thinking about it, Bai Yuming felt warm in his heart, “Okay.”

Mo Shulin only felt happiness had rushed so suddenly when he saw the fat rabbit hopped onto him and stretched out those rabbit paws obediently.

There’s ink on a rabbit’s paw, so it must be washed first.

Mo Shulin took out a small wooden basin, placed some snow into the small wooden basin, activated the fire talismans and it turned into a small fire dragon, swinging it’s tail twice in the air, plunging into the snow in the wooden basin.

The little fire dragon swims in the snow, and the snow slowly melts into water.

Because the spiritual energy hasn’t dissipated yet, when Mo Shulin grabbed the fat rabbit’s paws into the basin, the little fire dragon was still swimming in it.

The fat rabbit knew many tall and magnificent spells, but due to the limitations of poverty, he doesn’t know much about mundane spells. Now that he saw the little fire dragon in the basin, his eyes were bright, and he couldn’t help but stretching out his paws to touch the little fire dragon.

The little fire dragon was a little clever, seeing that black paw was about to touch it, it swam away with a wagging tail.